So, are the roads just going to be horrible forever?

Until the dart has actually reliable options to get around this won’t do anything. We got stranded for 55 minutes until the next train in a torrential thunderstorm at a station with no recourse last week. Had to call an uber to rescue us.

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RaccoonAwareness@reddit

I stopped using DART because I was tired of arriving at work frazzled from the shitty speaker music and reeking of vape

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Bodwest9@reddit

You get an award - and yes, using your phone without headphones public is socially unacceptable. If you down vote this you should might want to brush up on your etiquette and being more considerate of others.

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RaccoonAwareness@reddit

Thank you! :)

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rimjob_steve_@reddit

But how else will people complain that $6 diesel for their Dodge Rams during a Trump Administration is Biden’s fault?

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OutrageousQuantity12@reddit

I haven’t seen diesel prices anywhere close to $6, it’s right around $3.10 from what I’m seeing online right now

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yarmulke@reddit

Bros never heard of using hyperbole for comedic effect

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OutrageousQuantity12@reddit

If there was a joke there I’d agree it’s hyperbole for comedic effect, but there isn’t, so I didn’t

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yarmulke@reddit

It’s okay, we can’t all have good senses of humor.

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OutrageousQuantity12@reddit

If you think that’s a joke, I’m sorry for what you consider humor

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yarmulke@reddit

Cool story, but at least I’m not taking a comment made in jest too seriously

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OutrageousQuantity12@reddit

Again, if that’s supposed to be a funny comment, I feel really bad for anyone who finds it funny.

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Relative_Lie_9458@reddit

Trump blames Obama instead.

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Glad_Air8204@reddit

Shakes fist at DNC

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

You just dont get it. We MUST send billions to foreign countries. M U S T

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

Dallas is sending billions to foreign governments? 👀

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

Millions.* Yes.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

Okay well that’s a little different.🫤

Which ones? Just curious because this never comes up at council meetings.

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

Texas supports Isreel by routinely buying Isreel bonds annually. Especially 2015 onward.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

Does the city of Dallas do this as well?

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

What? No. Where do you think funds for roads come from? For Dallas roads to be improved, we need state and federal funding. Thats how infrastructure funding works.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

With a 5 billion dollar budget does the city actually need additional funding to repair roads?

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SleeplessInPlano@reddit

Yes lol.

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

Absolutely… Nearly(if not) all major cities rely on state and federal grants/funding for infrastructure projects. Most of the revenue generated locally in Dallas is through tolls which then gets appropriated to paying off those giant toll roads and not to street maintenance and repair.

My larger point is we need to be funding state infrastructure from a federal level by not sending billions to foreign governments. From a state level, we should not be buying foreign bonds and instead investing in our own cities.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

COD doesn’t get money from the toll roads. Most of the city revenue is from property and sales tax, then some from other sources such as water revenue and permits as well as others. The city did at least two big bond packages that I can remember which were to prioritize street replacement/repair but obviously were only utilized where the large majority of tax revenue comes from… well a few other places too.

While your point that we should prioritize funding for local needs is valid… your facts are bad

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

We’re on the topic of infrastructure…. Im not talking about overall revenue. Please use some context clues when having discussions.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

Revenue = funding = infrastructure repair

Abbott or Trump sending money to Israel ≠ city can’t get its shit together and fix a street

Context mmmkaaay

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

Using funds, appropriated for Isreel both federally and statewide, to fund roads and infrastructure is a clear cut, reasonable, and realistic way to fund road repair and maintenance.

All you have done is argued semantics and said Dallas needs to be a better budgeter. You live in idealism land. Yes, ideally the city puts funds up for the roads, but in reality, they dont and WON’T. So, you need a real solution, not just blabbering about how it ideally should be.

Funding for roads and infrastructure, by and large, comes from federal and state funding. It doesnt matter if you think it should be that way or not. Thats how IT IS.

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IfitbleedWecankillit@reddit

I’m sure you’ll solve it… now pipe down Timmy

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Replies_In_Disguise@reddit

Yikes.

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kamon405@reddit

You make my head hurt

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rmcswtx@reddit

It's that way throughout the Metroplex and when they finally get the roads completed, then they will have to repair all the issues and potholes that have cropped up.

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Fournier_Gang@reddit

Yep.

The extreme weather (heat, torrential rains, freezes) wrecks havoc on the roads. Plus, everyone driving gigantic SUV/trucks further puts a tremendous amount of stress on the infrastructure as well.

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No_Locksmith9690@reddit

Yes,and part of the problem is that in the 80s Dallas cut back on maintenance of everything and we can't even play catch up these days.

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Fiss@reddit

Yes and that’s true for all of America. Every city/ state wants to grow and build new roads but no one wants to maintain the infrastructure. The U.S. has a serious problem maintaining roads and bridges in this country and it’s at a dangerous level.

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PullFires@reddit

I wouldn't put that on all of america. It's the big cities with all the extra vehicle traffic where road conditions are the worst.

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jesuisunvampir@reddit

I was surprised by how nice Denver roads were when I drove there.. all that weed tax money getting put to good use.

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SuretyBringsRuin@reddit

Yes. It’s just getting worse. Avoid Ross.

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ConstructionNo1038@reddit

Ross is AWFUL. I think it might be my least favorite street in the city, and of course my kids’ daycare is off of it so I find myself on it way more than I’d like. I think I would rather deal with a parking lot on Central than having to take Ross.

I used to just grumble about it but recognize that any serious repaving is going to be a huge and very painful inconvenience, but I have gotten over that. It needs to be done.

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Adultery@reddit

Putting tax money toward infrastructure isn’t sexy so no one does it

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Legitimate-Focus9870@reddit

Ewww why fix something when we can use our tax dollars to pay billionaires for new toll roads?

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bebopgamer@reddit

Taxes?! How dare you suggest such government tyranny! The free market will provide a solution if we just get rid of pesky regulations.

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happy_puppy25@reddit

Putting it to NEW infrastructure is, maintenance is not

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funkngonuts@reddit

Unless it’s a highway…

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SirWillingham@reddit

Yes

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gmatocha@reddit

Yes because the alternative is eternal construction.

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arlenroy@reddit

I was just having this conversation with a coworker, we will be in a state of constant construction, at least in the metroplex, because we're in a state of constant migration. The more people we have, the more roads we need, the more roads we have the more maintenance work we need done. Past couple weeks my morning commute has been a real pain in the ass, 635 going west from 75, the 35 south exit has been closed off, along with the lanes leading to that exit, for road repairs. I will admit now the road surface for that transition is pretty damn smooth.

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Used_Gift8645@reddit

Oh, we’ll have that too… but also terrible roads forever.

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Zhombe@reddit

The people who pay for pothole repairs drive big ole SUV’s with air ride suspension. Drive a Yaris or a Prius? Welp, most small towns in Texas curb approaches aren’t even made for you.

Figured this one out a long time ago.

The secret is if it blows a state troopers suspension or tires it’s getting fixed. If it doesn’t affect anyone in power or with power; welp. Hands in the air waving non-specifically and pointing at bootstraps.

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bkharmony@reddit

Yes but also yes.

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LandlordTiberius@reddit

No, but Yes

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Look_b4_jumping@reddit

Try driving in New York city. You will appreciate the roads here.

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bluechip1996@reddit

Literally impossible to answer this without getting political. The cities, state and counties have far far more important grifty stuff to get to before roads.

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jabdtx@reddit

I don’t remember a single thing from Poly Sci 101 besides the professor on day one defining politics as the distribution of things of value.

In the US and probably most of the world, a relentless pursuit of applying our collective abilities, including any and all medical and technological breakthroughs, towards the betterment of all citizens is absolutely not on the fucking menu.

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Not_Associated8700@reddit

Welcome to the big city. It has and will always be. Roads be dammed, we need billionaires.

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PerfectHandz@reddit

Have you ever lived anywhere where the roads were actually bad? Go drive around Shreveport for a day and come back with some new found appreciation.

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Broad_Mushroom_8033@reddit

Where I used to live they just closed streets down, some for years/indefinitely

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Furrealyo@reddit

This.

New Orleans roads make Dallas roads look like the autobahn.

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Past-Contribution-22@reddit

Just convert the roads to fall padding and start flying the quadcopter hexacopter flying cars like 4 ft above roads. Someone make a proposal to government through company. Politicians love to look good from others’ work. If everyone benefits…who cares?

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Fair_Willingness3937@reddit

You must be new to tx.

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23mou-sapnu-puas@reddit

Who’s gonna fix them? They chased all the hard working people out of town towards the border.

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tristand666@reddit

Just think of it as an opportunity for some pothole art.

Seriously, the city uses bond debt to perform delayed maintenance since it seems they never considered the ongoing costs of building anything. They are so beholden to debt, they will never get from underwater.

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BRob504@reddit

They only bow to the God of the Altima. For the rest of us, we shall suffer bent wheels and blown tires.

So let it be done.

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Sea_Of_Phones@reddit

Unfortunately they only get fixed once the neighborhood has been 100% gentrified (at least most times)

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Thetinydeadpool@reddit

Narrator: “The answer was yes the roads would be horrible forever”

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James-the-Bond-one@reddit

I remember returning from a party in the early morning through an empty road in North Dallas, zigzagging to avoid potholes in the damaged pavement.

Soon enough, from half a mile behind me, a police cruiser lit up and reached me, suspecting me of drunk driving. Luckily, I was as sober as a rock, and they laughed when I explained the reason for my unsteady driving.

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DMongrolian@reddit

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fuqsfunny@reddit

yes

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Additional-Sky-7436@reddit

When you have 10,000 miles of roads some of them will always need some repairs.

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Realistic_Author_596@reddit

What do other countries do that are bigger than the US like China? Only speaking of building roads. Stop saying we can’t fix roads. It’s all due to inefficiency and sending taxes 10,000 miles away instead of using them here to constantly keep up with roads. Third-world country standards.

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Additional-Sky-7436@reddit

Show me a 40+ year old road in China that is in better condition than the average road in Dallas.

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Realistic_Author_596@reddit

Literally everywhere. Just go and research China and their infrastructure. The average road in Dallas is crumbling and never fixed. So sad! China is better in every single way infrastructure-wise and that’s just a fact. I’m sorry to tell you.

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